Section I. History and historiography -- The historical process / P.L. Lavrov -- Philosophy of history and historiosophy ; The person in cultural history ; The role of the person in history / N.I. Kareyev -- The new philosophy of history / P.M. Bitsilli -- Types of historical interpretation / G.V. Florovsky -- Section II. The nature of progress in history -- What is progress? / M.K. Mikhailovsky -- The slav cultural-historical type / N.Y. Danilevsky -- The doctrine of progress and the goal of history / N.A. Berdyaev -- The general character of the elements that promote progress / N.G. Chernyshevsky -- The idea of catastrophic progress / V.F. Ern -- The idea of progress and its historical basis / M.I. Rostovtsev -- Section III. Materialist conception of history -- The role of the individual in history / G.V. Plekhanov -- Is objective truth possible in historical science? / I.S. Kon -- On the nature of historical knowledge / A.V. Gulyga -- The Marxist philosophy of history / V.I. Mishin.